Bangalore -
Stories have the ability to reach out to people, young and old, and take us on a journey.
If the teller of the story has that particular gift of magic in his/her veins, you can get swept away very easily into other, fantastic lands.

Toronto -
SummerWorks is one of Toronto's most innovative annual theatre festivals. Now in its 23rd year, a feat in itself, this is an opportunity to see ground-breaking, thought provoking, and challenging works by the city's best local talent.

Calgary -
Gord Ferguson, a longtime teacher at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), has been fired after a performance art project that involved a student slaughtering a chicken. He plans to appeal.

Hudson -
Marina Abramovic, the performance artist, plans to open a $15 million new art centre in upstate New York. The construction site, formerly a tennis building, will be part art centre, part school, Abromovic revealed.

New York -
No, it wasn't that she had trouble getting to the hospital on time. A Brooklyn female artist decided to make the birth of her baby performance art at a public gallery and it went off without a hitch. Baby and mom are doing fine.

The headline for this article sounds like something you'd read in a supermarket tabloid. But in this case, it is absolutely true; a Melbourne artist had it done in 2007 and pictures are making their way around the Internet now.

Talk about living your work. Ye Fu and Hairong Tiantian are living in a glass house for a month as a performance arts piece. Their two room all glass residence is located at Beijing's 798 Factory modern art gallery.